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“Analogue is better than digital, Behringer gear is garbage and your cheap-ass monitors are ruining your mixes”: 10 of the most enduring music tech myths busted
It's time to separate fact from fiction. We demolish ten hot takes persistently spouted by purists, gatekeepers and overzealous Redditors
“I did have a couple of people saying, 'You're being so obsessive.’ But it had lost the magic, and so he said, 'Do you know what to do?’ And I said ‘I do’”: How going back to her Korg M1 demo helped Donna Lewis to create one of the biggest US hits of 1996
“I remember trying to rewrite the chorus because it sounded too much like a nursery rhyme. But when I did, it didn’t work, so I kept it the same"
I've recorded everything from vocals to guitars with this unbelievably versatile mic – and it just plummeted to only $79. That's so cheap I had to check the price twice
With a whopping $170 off at Guitar Center, you can now grab an impressive UK-made microphone with plenty of change from $100
“I guess it’s a real summer song – as soon as you play it, you know it’s going to kick off”: Ash’s Tim Wheeler tells us about the making of their most beloved song
Ash’s Tim Wheeler remembers the creation of the band’s most popular song - written while they were still at school!
“She was a bit nervous at first. She just sat down and she sang. I directed her. I wanted her to improvise”: How Lana Del Rey collaborated with movie maker Baz Luhrmann to create one of her most hauntingly beautiful songs
The director said her song was perfect – although his first choice had been Prince
“James’s rhythm parts are insane. His right hand looks like it's not even moving – It's one of the most aggressive, precise things you've ever heard in your life”: Andrew Scheps on the complex legacy of Metallica’s Death Magnetic
In a lengthy conversation MusicRadar had with the pre-eminent mix master, Scheps remembered working with the metal gods on that controversially loud ninth album
“An excellent example ofthe genre’s shifting atmospheric soundscapes”: EarthQuaker Devices Towers review
EarthQuaker Devices’ latest pedal offers three filter modes toturn stereo reverb into meandering, hazy soundscapes
“My hands just wouldn’t work. There was no way I could play the guitar. It was pretty scary”: Rockabilly icon Brian Setzer on his recovery from the autoimmune condition that stopped him playing guitar
The Stray Cats frontman says he is “98 per cent” recovered but is playing as good as he ever did
“I know I'm not supposed to use these foot pedals like this but it works”: Ariana Grande’s live looping moment on her Eternal Sunshine tour showcases a skill that she’s been honing for 20 years
A longtime fan of the Boss RC Loop Stations, she was uploading live looped performance videos as early as 2007
Someone put a chiptune synth and 16-step sequencer in a watch - and it looks as bonkers as it sounds
Is this retro-styled DIY build the world's first wrist-worn sequencer?
“Lemme guess, you got Che Guevara and Malcolm X on your shelf, maybe even Fred Hampton, but at the end of the day you get in the Lamborghini and put your kids in private school”: Charlie Crokett gets personal in playground tussle with Jack White
Argument broke out over ‘Satanic’ support act
A dream machine for Gretsch superfans, this limited run Penguin is refreshed in Pale Blue Pearl with Bigsby and Ful-Fidelity FilterTrons – and it is one sweet songbird
A Professional Series Penguin for those serious about Gretsch sounds with a few bucks to spare on a big budget bird
“People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery I guess”: Revisiting our classic interview with the legendary Lemmy
Back in 2012 we spoke to the late Motorhead mainman about his other great passion - rockabilly
“This is a difficult guitar to put a review score on”: Harley Benton Fusion-T II HH RW HT PM review
Harley Benton doubles down as one of the industry’s leading affordable brands with a well-appointed player
“We liked the sound of what Giorgio was doing with I Feel Love. We thought the marriage of electronics with what we were doing would be something really fresh and special”: Russell Mael on how Sparks went beyond pop to create their own sonic universe
With the dynamic duo's concert album Live On The Moon out now, Mael re-enters Earth's orbit to explain why Sparks were never going to give us the same thing twice
“It makes your massive amp sound tiny, and way better, and it just sounds sick”: Stu Mackenzie and Jam Pedals team up to bring you the secret behind his King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard tone
The Tiny Amp Destroyer has two gain stages plus a treble booster and brings you the unruly and wild gain sounds of Mackenzie's "Cash Converters" small-amp setup
Minimal Audio's Lucid is a granular powerhouse that could be a rival to time-tested tools like Output's Portal
This "next-generation granular effect" combines a flexible granular engine with scale locking, deep modulation and a host of additional effects
“Steven started singing, ‘Cruisin’ for the ladies.’ I said, ‘That’s really bad. I don’t think Van Halen would put that on the B-side of their worst record’”: When Aerosmith got schooled by hit songwriter Desmond Child
His tough-talking approach helped create one of the band’s biggest hits
Brandon Flowers says that every major label passed on Mr Brightside: "They would say, ‘When did you record this song again? What producer did you bring in?’ And it's like, ‘No, that's the same song. It's exactly the same recording that you heard before'”
Brandon Flowers says that every major label initially said no to Mr Brightside
“People often crack jokes about that album. We had that dreadful picture on the cover with the three of us looking like the Bee Gees, and I’m thinking, ‘This is wrong’”: Carl Palmer on the disastrous album that led ELP to break up
Keith Emerson called it “an embarrassment against everything I’ve worked for”
“There's not a night that passes when that doesn't still sting”: When Skrillex shared with us his anger at having four years of his work stolen
Back in 2012 Skrillex was dubstep’s reigning king, now held in high esteem as an EDM legend, we look back on a classic conversation he had with MusicRadar
“We're encouraged by the impact these measures are having”: McDonalds branch gets rid of teenage trouble by playing classical music
Same method has been used in Liverpool, Wrexham and Barrow in Furness
Frank Beard, ZZ Top drummer, dies aged 77: "I made him jam for eight hours straight until his tongue just fell out. By the time we stopped, we both knew we had a band"
Billy Gibbons hails "great friend and collaborator"
Nearly 40% of music released last month used AI
Almost a quarter was fully AI generated
Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson give the thumbs-up to Angine De Poitrine: “The most entertaining and exhilarating bits of music that I've heard for a long, long time”
“I love the fact that they've gone viral"
The legendary SL-1200 is 55: Technics celebrates with a limited edition of the iconic turntable
There are only 12,000 of them
“I don’t know how many times I’ve told you about swinging that thing”: Rob Thomas smacks his Matchbox Twenty bandmate with a mic stand
Paul Doucette’s in ear monitor was smashed in accident
“To completely ignore written music is to deny yourself acres of inspiration”: It's time to finally learn music theory – Start here with our basic notation overview
Learning to actually read music can open up many avenues as a musician, and it isn't as difficult as it might look…
“It starts out polite but then gets loud, dirty and nasty enough to pick a fight with fuzz”: Warm Audio Dirty Boy Jr. Booster review
Warm Audio revives the Dirty Boy Ball Buster circuit but without the boutique price tag.
Bad Bunny caught up in copyright case that could see massive consequences for reggaeton as a genre
Dispute centres on what constitutes the dembow ‘riddim’
“Prince liked it loud on stage - Your head would be vibrating after those shows. Your body and your mind were shaken to the core”: We find out what it was really like being on-stage with Prince
A Prince show was a bombastic affair, but what was it like backing up his Royal Badness himself? MusicRadar spoke to two former Revolution members to find out…
“We wish him the best in his future endeavours”: Slipknot confirm that Sid Wilson is no longer a member of the band
DJ had played on all seven of their studio albums
“He heard us playing his song electric. You could see the gears grinding in his head. It was like watching a slow-motion lightning bolt”: How The Byrds reinvented a great Bob Dylan song and inspired Dylan to revolutionise his music
It was the first Dylan track to land at No 1 despite him not playing on it
“We were just looking at each other like, ‘Holy crap,' Like, he has turned back time”: Geddy Lee talks about the vocal prep he had to do for Rush’s 50 Something tour
Frontman had to take singing lessons to reach his full range
“The idea came from Bowie and Star Wars”: We speak to Ash’s Tim Wheeler about the making of their beloved sci-fi love song
Ash’s Tim Wheeler remembers the creation of the band’s most popular song - written while they were still at school!
“Mutt said, ‘Give it a go, and if it doesn’t work get rid of the guy.’ And that’s exactly what we had to do, because Jim was less than useless!”: Why Def Leppard couldn’t make their monster hit Hysteria with Jim Steinman as producer
“The food budget for the Steinman sessions was probably as much money as The Dark Side Of The Moon cost to record”
“Lindsey was beating his guitar as hard as he could and screaming his lungs out. The first time I heard it, I thought, 'What the heck is going on?’”: Inside the making of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours
We revisit a classic interview where MusicRadar was given an inside look at the making of one of the most well-regarded albums of all time
“We wanted people to say, ‘Wow, that's Cypress Hill?’”: Cypress Hill’s beat-master Eric Bobo tells us why the band recorded their new album entirely in Spanish
Percussionist Eric Bobo reveals how Cypress Hill embraced their Latino roots on their first full-length Spanish-language album
“When Kraftwerk became an institution we stopped being contemporary. Instead we became salesmen of nostalgia”: Karl Bartos reflects on the end of Kraftwerk’s golden era
Kraftwerk’s Karl Bartos told us how the German pioneers' embrace of computerisation was the trigger for his departure
“Makes you realise just how good budget guitars have become”: Harley Benton ST-62LA review
Hand-relic'd with a spec sheet that doesn't get old, Harley Benton's Aged Series brings vintage feel on a budget
SampleRadar: 505 free rave synths samples
Get your glow sticks out, it's time for a rave-up
Suno’s Studio 2.0 adds an AI chatbot that can control your project, transform sounds and generate custom plugins
The update also brings a number of more conventional features like MIDI support, automation and latency compensation
How many keys are there on a piano? – and why are some keyboards bigger than others? Here's everything you need to know about keyboard sizes but were afraid to ask
Looking for the perfect keyboard? Does size really matter? 88, 49, 32?… Here’s the full guide to navigating the keys-world
How Pete Townshend’s drunken night with two Sex Pistols inspired The Who’s last classic song with Keith Moon: “I used to go to clubs and get insulted. Just stand there and endure these snotty little kids saying, ‘Boring old fart!’”
Townshend took punk seriously but refused to be cast off as an irrelevant rock dinosaur
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“We always recorded with Michael in the dark - he hated light. The studio was absolutely dark”: Behind the scenes of Michael Jackson’s monster hit
Back in 2009, we spoke with Thriller’s legendary recording engineer Bruce Swedien, who shared some remarkable insights into the making of Michael Jackson’s biggest ever success
The guitar genius of Ritchie Blackmore in 5 classic tracks: “There is nothing cooler on record than the dimension-altering alliance of Blackmore, Roger Glover’s bass and Lord’s Hammond organ”
With Blackmore returning onstage with Deep Purple for the first time since '93, we unpack his explosive talents over a handful of tracks (none of which are Smoke On The Water)